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Letters Patent No; 113,253, dated April 4, 1871.

.IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-COLLARS AND HAMES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

I, OTHO CANN, of Goldwater, Branch county, Michigan, have inventedcertain Improvements in Horse-Collars, of which the following isa specification.

Figure 1 isa perspective view, and

Figure 2 4is a transverse section.

Thisinvention consists of an elasticl metallic plate, bent into-the' proper shape to form the foundation of a horse-collar, and provided with projecting plates, formed in one piece with the plate, for the attachment ofthe tugs.

Referring to the drawingc is the elastic steel plate that forms the foundation ofthe Vcollar therein shown, which plate is curved in cross-section, having its inner side convex and its outer side convex.-

dis the stuffing of the collar, applied to the concaveside of the lplate a.

c is the leather covering on the outside of the stuing and on the inside of the collar.

d is the leather' covering on the outside of the plate a. i

e is av vprojecting plate, of which there is one on each side, near the base of the collar, said plates having holes near their outer ends for the insertion of the hook by which the tug is attached to the projecting plate. I

f is afleatherpad, secured to the inside of each plate e, and extending outside of the collar, so as to forma guard between the tug-hook and the animalsskin.

In -fig. 1 h is the socket, formed at one end of the plate a. i

'i is a spring latch, pivoted to the outside of the scket h, andV provided with a pin that extends through the side of the socket into its interior.

Z-is one of a series of holes that are cut in the tongue m, formed on the plate at its other end, which tongue is made small enough to enter when pressed into the socket.

The tivo ends of the plate a are connected by the passing of the latch-pin through one of the holes l, the size of the collar depending upon the distance to which thesocket is penetrated by the tongue m. By this means the collar is rendered adj nstable to horses of different sizes.

When the latch-pin is withdrawn from 'the end of the plate the elasticity of the latter causes the tongue m to immediateiy iiy out of the socket. i

I claim as myinvention- The elastic metallic plate a, forming the foundation of a horse-collar, and provided with the projecting lugs e, each formed i'n one piece with the plate, for ifiheattachment ofthe tugs, and constructed as speci-v ed. Y

Witnesses: OTH() OANN.

DAVID N. GREEN, GEORGE J. Lanes. 

